Manufacturing production in the UK fell by 1.7% month-over-month in September 2025, reversing a downwardly revised 0.6% increase in August and well above market expectations of a 0.3% decline. The latest figure marked the sharpest fall since April 2024, with seven of the thirteen sub-sectors recording monthly decreases. Notably, the manufacture of motor vehicles, trailers, and semi-trailers (-28.6%) contributed negative 1.29 percentage points to the overall monthly decline. Other sectors experiencing decreases included the manufacture of transport equipment (-13.8%), textiles, wearing apparel, and leather products (-2.5%), and chemicals and chemical products (-1.7%). On a yearly basis, manufacturing production dropped by 2.2%, following a downwardly revised 0.7% fall in the previous month and worse than market forecasts of a 0.8% decline.